S41D:
Imaging the Earth VII from Data to Processes When Imaging Anisotropy and Attenuation

Session ID#: 5416

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
305 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Ellen M Syracuse, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Convener:  Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland and Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
7218 Lithosphere [SEISMOLOGY]
7270 Tomography [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Lg Attenuation of the Western United States (17971)
Andrea C Conley nee Gallegos, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States, Nishath R Ranasinghe, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States, James Ni, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Eric A Sandvol, University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States
Attenuation and Velocity Structure in Spain and Morocco: Distinguishing Between Water, Temperature, and Partial Melt (11891)
Maximiliano J Bezada, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Eugene Humphreys, Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Imaging Rayleigh Wave Attenuation and Phase Velocity beneath North America with USArray (24852)
Xueyang Bao, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Ge Jin, LDEO, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY, United States and James B Gaherty, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Why Ignoring Anisotropy When Imaging Subduction Zones Could be a Bad Idea (9199)
Manuele Faccenda, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy, Maximiliano J Bezada, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Douglas R Toomey, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States and Eugene Humphreys, Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Constraints on the Thermal and Compositional Nature of the Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary from Seismic Anisotropy (Invited) (2919)
Caroline Beghein, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Kaiqing Yuan, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States and Zheng Xing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Global Radially Anisotropic Whole-Mantle Structure from Multiple Datasets (Invited) (2313)
Ana MG Ferreira, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Sung-Joon Chang, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea, Jeroen Ritsema, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Hendrik Jan van Heijst, Shell International, Rijswijk, Netherlands and John H Woodhouse, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Full Waveform Inverted Models Are Homogenized Models. (8554)
Yann Capdeville, Université de Nantes, CNRS, Laboratoire de Planétologie et de Géodynamique, UMR6112, Nantes, France, Eleonore Stutzmann, IPGP, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Jean-Paul Montagner, CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Interpreting Radial Anisotropy in Global and Regional Tomographic Models (14150)
Thomas Bodin, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Yann Capdeville, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States and Jean-Paul Montagner, CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
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